Women artists are (final­ly) boom­ing! Since the Amer­i­can art his­to­ri­an Lin­da Nochlin posed the provoca­tive ques­tion in 1971: ​“Why have there been no great women artists?” a lot has hap­pened — in art his­tor­i­cal research as well as in the exhi­bi­tion busi­ness. Indeed, there were (and are) great women artists, many of whom were also court painters, teach­ers, and entre­pre­neurs. In lec­ture for­mat (also pos­si­ble online) or in front of orig­i­nals, we will dis­cov­er togeth­er high­ly fas­ci­nat­ing careers such as those of the Ital­ian painter Sofon­is­ba Anguis­so­la (c. 1531÷32−1625) or the art and nat­u­ral­ist Maria Sibyl­la Mer­ian (1647−1717). In addi­tion, the excit­ing work of female patrons such as Christi­na of Swe­den (1626−1689) is high­light­ed. There is also an overview of women in art from the Mid­dle Ages to clas­si­cal modernism.